Through my current work I frequently encounter people who believe individual lifestyle changes can change the world, and if everyone just made these adjustments the world’s problems would be solved. The book 50 Simple Things You Can Do To Save the Earth propagated this myth and encouraged members of my generation to believe that […]

76% of African American boys in Baltimore don’t graduate high school.
That’s the opening quote to Boys of Baraka, a documentary that has taken Baltimore by storm the past few weeks.
Mavis Jackson tells her black male Baltimore middle school audience that they have three options by the time they reach age 18: “An orange […]

The American Public Health Association (APHA) annual meeting will be in Boston this year from Nov. 4-8, 2006. Abstract Deadline has been postponed to February 20 for all those thoughtful folks who wanted to participate but thought it was too late (like myself).
Since the next conference will be in Boston, and a few of us […]

The Environmental Protection Agency has just issued a health warning for dangerous levels of ambient romance. The findings of the recent epidemiologic studies associate romantic exposure with “a flushing of the skin around the face, neck, and chest, accelerated heartbeat, rapid eyelash batting, and sighs,” according to EPA administrator Steven Johnson.
Another article recently published […]

I can’t resist a quick jab at a few of the products that paid their way into millions of living rooms across the U.S. this evening.
First off, PS (slogan: “the new clean”) got under my skin with a commercial (viewable here) depicting “normal Americans” walking around doing their normal everyday things in hazmat […]